The United States is used to looking for trouble from its enemies, but a growing set of problems will emerge from its allies. In the eastern Mediterranean, three U.S. allies are increasingly at loggerheads, and the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better.

For nearly four decades, the United States' reputation in the Middle East has been strengthened by its ability to broker peace between Israelis and Arabs. That ability is fading as the Palestinians seek to bypass the United States in their statehood bid and Israeli policies...

September 12, 2011The line between politics and religion in the Middle East is growing blurrier, and the easiest way to see this is on television. In years gone by, mainstream preachers studiously avoided talking openly about politics. The traditional mode was to dispense wisdom...

Five months in, Egypt's post-Mubarak politics have yet to take shape. With parliamentary elections scheduled to take place in only two months, and with Egyptians still wondering if they will vote for district representatives, national party lists, or some hybrid system,...

For all of the talk of Egypt and Facebook, Jordan is the technology leader in the Middle East. Last month, Oasis500, a Jordanian angel fund for IT startups, signed a strategic partnership with Microsoft for boosting IT entrepreneurship in Jordan. Actively supported by King...

If there were a single lesson to be learned from the bloody and chaotic period that followed the toppling of Saddam Hussein, it was the importance of planning carefully for the post-conflict environment. As coalition forces bear down on Muammar Gadhafi’s Libya, that...

When Hosni Mubarak resigned on February 11, it was an earthquake that shook the entire region, and shakes it still. Egypt had long ago lost its mantle as the leader of the Arab world, but it was certainly its center of gravity. How Egypt emerges from its current uncertainty...

It is tempting to see the political protests sweeping the Middle East as "Facebook Revolutions"; to see the Internet as a force that galvanizes hundreds of thousands of young people into a new political force that breathes life into stolid authoritarian...

Mubarak's end is near, but the danger is that other Arab leaders will draw the wrong lesson from his fall. Rather than concluding that Mubarak was too wed to the ideas of the past, they are likely to conclude he was insufficiently cautious of abandoning those ideas.